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May 6, 2026
brn:
> my only concern out of the gate is data storage size and local data/index encryption.
Currently the size requirements are around 100Mb/1000 websites, but it can be reduced by at least an order of magnitude, because currently I store the whole raw HTML of the websites in the index for development purposes. In the near future I’d like to exclude HTML/favicons from the index which will not only significantly reduce the index size but makes the growth of the index non-linear.
Encryption however an issue I have yet to find a better solution than the default full disk encryption. Let me know if you have suggestions - unfortunately the indexer lib I use does not support index encryption.
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